Nancy Folbre, Professor Emerita of Economics, will deliver the third annual Samuel Bowles Lecture “Specialization, Power, and Inequality: The Case of the Care Penalty,” on Thursday, March 1 at 4 p.m. in Crotty Hall.
Folbre argues that several distinctive features of care provision...

After a year-long, global data-mining competition, organizers today awarded the top three winning teams from Hong Kong, Japan and Michigan at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Northeast Big Data Spoke meeting on the MIT campus in Cambridge. A total of 74 teams took part in the challenge.

This story and photos by Brian Choquet originally appeared in Amherst Wire.
At 10 years old, University of Massachusetts Amherst junior Stephnie Igharosa was a self-proclaimed tomboy when she reluctantly let her mother wrap her head in a traditional Nigerian gele. As her mom wrapped and...

“Stone Work: Creativity in Granite, Word, and Image,” an exhibition featuring the sculpture of Darrell Petit, Jonathan Swinchatt and Sean Kernan, is being featured in The Design Building Gallery, John W. Olver Design Building.
The exhibition will wrap up with an artists’...

As a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas, Whitney Battle-Baptiste walked into her advisor’s office one day brandishing a hefty folder of anthropological research on captive Africans. Her advisor’s reaction? “How is this going to help the liberation of black people?...

SPIRE, the student records system, will be unavailable between 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 16, and 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 20, while Information Technology performs system maintenance.
This necessary work will enable SPIRE to stay current with the latest features and updates from our software vendor...

Experimental physicists at UMass Amherst today report that they have developed a fast, dynamic new process for wrapping liquid droplets in ultrathin polymer sheets, so what once was a painstaking process taking tens of minutes can now be done in a fraction of a second.

An international collaboration of plant researchers this week reports yet another newly discovered role for the versatile receptor kinase, FERONIA, in the model plant Arabidopsis. The researchers say it acts as a sensor in the plant cell wall to help maintain its integrity and protect the plant from environmental assaults.

Daniel Gerber, senior lecturer in community health education and associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, has been selected by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) to receive the 2018 Riegelman Award for Excellence in...